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Job Function: Accounting/Auditing, Finance, Strategy/Planning
Employment Type: Full-time
Company Industry: Accounting
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

The Tax Manager leads and manages multiple operations of the tax practice area and delivers quality tax services that increase the firm’s reputation. This individual serves as a business advisor to our clients and oversees multiple tax engagements to deliver quality tax services, as well as looks for ways to grow the business and reach new clients. This leadership position would be an excellent fit for self-described “finders and/or minders” that exhibit a high-level of emotional intelligence in support of each other and our clients.

Job Description:

• Contributes to the Firm’s overall success through the adoption of servant-leadership principles.
• Provides innovative tax planning and consulting advice to organizations and individuals.
• Leads accounting staff, coordinates work flow and advances team-wide performance.
• Identifies and mitigates tax risks for clients and the Firm.
• Motivates, trains and empowers tax department staff.
• Effectively manages multiple clients, budgets, and production goals without last-minute stress.
• Builds new and existing client relationships and demonstrates knowledge of client’s businesses.
• Reviews: tax returns, memoranda, and correspondence related to federal, state, and local income tax returns for individuals, businesses, benefit funds, real estate, and exempt organizations.
• Handles federal, state, and local tax audits.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, exhibiting empathy for others with positive conflict resolution skills
• Analytical, with detail orientation and ability to multi-task without sacrificing people skills
• Ability to manage work-life balance while achieving partner-level accountability and service
• Excellent knowledge of tax accounting, tax compliance, and all types of tax returns
• Good at meeting deadlines and solving problems
• Research proficiency driven by the principle of life-long learning
• Well-rounded in dealing with high net worth individuals and closely-held businesses
• Expert at technology, work flow automation, and digital service delivery methods
• CPA license required
• 6-10 years’ prior experience in public accounting and tax, with at least 3 years demonstrating these qualifications and education requirements while performing at a high-level.

Job Function: Accounting/Auditing, Finance, Strategy/Planning
Employment Type: Full-time
Company Industry: Accounting
Seniority level: Associate

The Tax Senior is responsible for performing complex tax preparation, tax research, and tax planning services to a variety of clients across many industries. This position also provides work direction and technical guidance to less experienced staff and contacts clients to resolve various tax matters.

Job Description:

• Prepares federal, state, and local income tax returns for individuals, businesses, benefit funds, real estate, and exempt organizations within a time frame.
• Reviews tax work of less experienced staff and peers
• Reviews tax information supplied by client; may follow up to request additional information
• Provides innovative planning and consulting advice to individuals, businesses, and exempt organizations under direct supervision.
• Recognizes, anticipates, and resolves tax issues; makes recommendations
• Markets firm services to existing and prospective clients
• Meets productivity and efficiency standards

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• CPA license required
• 3+ years prior experience in public accounting and tax
• Knowledge of tax accounting, tax compliance, and all types of tax returns
• Good at meeting deadlines and solving problems
• Strong computer skills, preferably in ProFx, Microsoft Office, and QuickBooks
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
• Analytical skills with detail orientation and ability to multi-task
• Well-rounded in dealing with high net worth individuals and businesses

Position: Full Time
Level/Salary Range: DOE
Location: Puyallup
Travel: Minimal

Our Client Accounting Services department is experiencing tremendous growth, so we are excited to be adding to our team! Do you enjoy client interaction? Are you savvy in QuickBooks Desktop and Online environments? Do you love accounting? Are you naturally detail-oriented and good with managing deadlines? If so, we would like to speak with you

Job Description:

1. Interact with clients on a professional basis.
2. Work in various accounting programs with a focus in QuickBooks, and ability and willingness to learn new ones at a constant rate.
3. Ability to handle a company’s full circle accounting needs.
4. Prepare appropriate state and federal returns with regard to payroll and income.
5. Working knowledge of appropriate classification for chart of accounts.
6. Analytical review of Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss.
7. Perform self-review for accuracy.
8. Work on a project related basis.
9. Be flexible and proactive by requesting projects or identifying needs of the firm.
10. Contribute to new and expanding processes and procedures through working knowledge.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting required.
• Minimum 5 years of in accounting, full-charge or equivalent
• Must be a self-starter who is detail-oriented and able to manage competing priorities.
• Must have working knowledge of QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Online Word, Excel, Adobe, and Outlook.
• Professional oral and written communication skills and excellent phone presence.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Able to be flexible with rotating priorities and multiple due dates
• Experience with ProFX Tax, Checkpoint and CCH Axcess a plus

Some travel to the Bellevue office will be required. Additional hours and Saturdays can be expected, primarily during tax season.

Must be comfortable with multi-tasking, working with all firm staff to achieve a high-level of client service and firm objectives. Attention to detail and ability to identify tasks and firm needs are critical.

About Our Firm

Hauser Jones & Sas, PLLC is a full service CPA firm with two offices located in Bellevue and Puyallup, WA.  The firm specializes in serving small to medium businesses, high-net worth individuals, banks, and credit unions throughout Puget Sound and surrounding states.  Our goal is to balance our personal lives with a rich and rewarding professional career that provides challenge and opportunity.  Our vision is to double the size of our firm over the next 7 years, so we need talented professionals to help us achieve our growth goals while providing superior client service.

Additional Notes

Position to start immediately. Posting expires when filled.

Job Function: Sales, Business Development, Marketing
Employment Type: Full-time
Company Industry: Accounting
Seniority level: Mid-senior level

More Than Numbers: We’re About People, Relationships and Trust

At Hauser Jones & Sas, we are always searching for talented people with real world experience to join our team. We seek to employ motivated accountants, industry consultants, and talented individuals that have a strong client service focus and high levels of aptitude. Our clients have told us they appreciate our:

• Knowledge
• Friendliness
• Helpfulness
• Reliability
• Timeliness
• Ability to interpret rules beyond black and white, to shades of grey

If this aligns with your skills and passions, and you are interested in working for a firm that makes an impact in the local community, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a Client Accounting Services Manager to provide accounting services for our clients according to the client need. The responsibilities include establishing financial status by developing and implementing systems for collecting, analyzing, verifying and reporting information.

Job Description:

Oversee the daily operations of the accounting department for client needs including:

• Month and end-year processes
• Monthly, quarterly and annual compliance reporting
• Accounts payable/receivable
• Cash receipts
• General ledger and general adjustments
• Payroll and utilities
• Treasury, budgeting
• Cash forecasting
• Revenue and expenditure variance analysis
• Capital assets reconciliations
• Trust account statement reconciliations,
• Check runs
• Fixed asset activity
• Debt activity

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Proven work experience in accounting
• Advanced computer skills on MS Office and databases
• Strong QuickBooks products skills or other accounting systems
• Ability to manipulate large amounts of data
• Proven knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting principles, practices, standards, laws and regulations
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• BS degree in Accounting or Finance required, or other relevant advanced degree/experience
• Good at meeting deadlines and solving problems
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
• CPA preferred
• Experience with Salesforce, Stripe, Expensify, QBO preferred

Skill Keywords: Customer Service, Payroll, Accounting, QuickBooks, General Ledger, Cash Flow Forecasting, Monthly Close Process, Financial Forecasting, Year-end Close